06/06/2026
For our final National AccessAbility Week post, we wanted to do something a little different.
We asked the people who know her best — colleagues, family, and friends — to share what Andrea Carey means to them. What came back left us in tears. ✨
Andrea is the founder and Director of Games of the OneAbility Games, a Canadian Certified Inclusion Professional, a ten-year Canadian Paralympic Committee Board Director, and one of the most quietly powerful forces for change in disability sport. She built the OneAbility Games from a dream into a reality, and this May, we all got to watch that vision come to life at the Richmond Olympic Oval.
But here’s the thing about Andrea that no bio can fully capture: she is SO deeply loved. By the people who work alongside her, by the athletes she fights for, by the families who finally feel seen because of the spaces she creates. And there is nothing more powerful than a movement led by someone who leads with that much heart.
This video is in many ways, a love letter to Andrea, and a reminder that inclusion doesn’t happen by accident. It happens because people like her refuse to stop until everyone belongs, and THAT (amongst a million other reasons) is why we celebrate her on National AccessAbility Week.
Thank you, Andrea. For everything. 🙏
Video Description: The video starts with an image of Andrea Carey doing a puck drop for a Blind Hockey team, the text “National AccessAbility Week May 31-June6” is in a box across it. The video then moves to Tami Tate, Event Manager, as she speaks about Andrea, from there we see Valerie Carey (Andrea’s Mom), Jessica Kruger (Manager of Engagement and Communications), Maureen Burr (Family friend), Jennifer Moran (Friend of 25+ years), Melissa Clarke (friend of 25+ years), Jina Taylor (Education Lead), Olivia and Dave Evanoff (daughter and husband), Valerie Gosselin (Fund Development Lead) and ends on Leah Massine-Folliott (Communications Coordinator).